The Rivals, 1942

The run closed February 28, 1942

Opened

January 14, 1942

Closed

February 28, 1942

Performances

54

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Shubert Theatre

Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and carry a performance count, this is the 323rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Rivals 8 more that season

1778	John Street Theatre Original
1899	Grand Opera House Revival	1 perf.
1910	Garden Theatre Revival
1912	39th Street Theatre Revival
1922	Empire Theatre Revival · William Seymour	8 perf.
1923	48th Street Theatre Revival · Mrs. Shelley Hull	24 perf.
1930	Erlangers Theatre Revival · Harrison Grey Fiske	28 perf.
2004	Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Mark Lamos	45 perf.

Who was in it13 named

George Boots
Walt Draper
Walter Hampden
Frances Reid
Horace Sinclair
Haila Stoddard
Robert Wallsten
William Whitehead

5 of these 13 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Eva Le Gallienne

Producer

The Theatre Guild (Theresa Helburn, Lawrence Langner: Administrative Directors)

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for The Rivals at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.